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Wearable knee robot could help children with muscle weakness

Yanggang Feng and colleagues designed a lightweight (0.96 kg) wearable knee robot to assist isokinetic training for children with SMA type II, an intermediate form of the condition. In a clinical trial, they tested outcomes in six children (aged 6–10 years old) who could not stand from a seated position without assistance.

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Study sheds light on how early pancreas lesions become cancerous

We were expecting the two components, the cells and the microenvironment, to evolve in lockstep. They did not,” said co-senior study author Marina Pasca di Magliano, Ph.D., Maud T. Lane Professor of Surgical Immunology and co-director of the Rogel and Blondy Center for Pancreatic Cancer at the University of Michigan.

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